Featured Georgian paste button brooch

Hello everyone, I bought this brooch a year ago online because I knew it was something good, and for a 16€ all in it was still in my budget
Because of the clasp I catalogued it internally as 'Victorian paste' and didn't think about it since.
Can you believe it took me a whole year, till yesterday when it all of a sudden dawned on me this is in fact a converted Georgian button?
I bought the Georgian Portugese flower head brooch (its already posted somewhere here)only a few weeks prior to it
I went through this marvelous book (Georgian Jewellery) numerous times without noticing.
Happy with my new -to me!- Georgian piece!
It must sometimes be easy to have a better working brain at hand.

 

Great find, Dessert! And nice price, that's the way we like our jewellery.

 

Any Jewelry, thank you!
My price range is usually cheap/very cheap/dirt cheap

 

What a nice example. I would not have known it was Georgian! Really beautiful.

I've had a few times too where something in my stash and right under my nose turned out to be something surprising and better. Love when that happens.

Thank you for sharing. Another thing to keep an eye out for. I remember your thread on the larger brooch shown.

 

My kind of girl!

 

A beauty, again! Well done, again!
Those buttons are cute baubles, often repurposed in later times. The ones with openwork outer can be used as earrings without alteration with changeable hooks

 

Lucille, thank you for your reply.
its not always better , unfortunately
Sometimes its harder to see when something is right under your nose

 

Any Jewelry, the exception of this dirt cheap rule is my addition to Flemish jewelry unfortunately.
But even then, cheap is way more fulfilling than paying up for something

 

Kyratango thank you for your reply
Now I will keep my eyes open to them!

 

You wouldn't be Dutch, would you?

 

Any Jewelry, all one and the same

 

Online bargain purchases always amaze me-valuable items for all the world to see & bid,& nobody but Dessert ponies up the pennies ! PLUS you avoid the gas & obnoxious elbow poking covid crowds-superbly done.

 

So true. Borders are artificial things anyway, and in this part of the world people migrated a lot, so we're all related in some way.

And, we in the Low Countries are said to all have a common ancestor: Charlemagne.
Busy man, how he ever found time to rule a country is a mystery. Of course he kept moving his seat of government, 'going places and meeting people'.

 

I do believe that’s black dot paste, too.

 

One more thing we Yanks never got, unless someone wore one over on a liner or an airplane - Georgian button pins.